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Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
Based on the best-selling novel “Pines” by Blake Crouch and brought to life by suspenseful storyteller M. Night Shyamalan, “Wayward Pines” is the intense new mind-bending 10-episode event thriller evocative of the classic hit “Twin Peaks.”

I enjoyed Season 1. As with most of M. Night's things since The Village, I watch wondering when it's going to take some weird turn and spoil a good thing. Season 2 is not bad; it's different than Season 1, and given the end of Season 1, it has to be. It does take a strange and uncomfortable turn towards the last few episodes of Season 2, and that turn comes to just a strange and uncomfortable end. All - in-all, for those expecting Season 2 to be Season 1, don't. I was not as impressed with

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started slow, turned out to be super interesing with mind blowing turns of events / reveals. But the last episde ruined it all. I don't think next season is going to be a good one, if continues... What a shame.

really enjoyed this series although i was more than a little disappointed with the ending which does not really leave us expecting another season as i do not believe that Ben character has the strength to follow through, besides did the characters really go through all that to end up under another facist regime with no story of how it came about.....a little unbelievable.

I watched the first episode of this series a while back and wasn't that into it, however I recently decided to give it a go and I'm glad I did; There is an opportunity for a second series. It's worth binge-watching

I enjoyed Season 1. As with most of M. Night's things since The Village, I watch wondering when it's going to take some weird turn and spoil a good thing. Season 2 is not bad; it's different than Season 1, and given the end of Season 1, it has to be. It does take a strange and uncomfortable turn towards the last few episodes of Season 2, and that turn comes to just a strange and uncomfortable end. All - in-all, for those expecting Season 2 to be Season 1, don't. I was not as impressed with

thanks cancering spoilering pieces of shit i honestly hope your whole family dies of cancer. Inbred cancer can't even use the simple spoiler function and this site can't ban people who spoiler shit. Thanks!

started slow, turned out to be super interesing with mind blowing turns of events / reveals. But the last episde ruined it all. I don't think next season is going to be a good one, if continues... What a shame.

really enjoyed this series although i was more than a little disappointed with the ending which does not really leave us expecting another season as i do not believe that Ben character has the strength to follow through, besides did the characters really go through all that to end up under another facist regime with no story of how it came about.....a little unbelievable.

I watched the first episode of this series a while back and wasn't that into it, however I recently decided to give it a go and I'm glad I did; There is an opportunity for a second series. It's worth binge-watching

Are the writers smarter than 1st graders? Did the writers FINISH 1st grade? Adequate acting & photography, terrible train wreck writing. Ripped off from "In the Year 2889"

1 /10

********MAJOR SPOILERS!********Hello!This is a difficult review to write. While, as others have pointed out,
the acting mostly varies from adequate t ...

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********MAJOR SPOILERS!********Hello!This is a difficult review to write. While, as others have pointed out,
the acting mostly varies from adequate to very good (the standouts
being Juliette Lewis and Melissa Leo), with decent photography and
direction, the total end results are closer to a train wreck than a TV
series. (I haven't read the books, but many have indicated that the
series is reasonably close, so many of these comments will apply to the
author and books.)The series started out promising. A strange town, a mystery. As others
mentioned, a combination of "The Prisoner", "Twin Peaks", and "Lost".
Quickly, I (having read thousands of science fiction books), knew it
would be one of three explanations: 1. suspended animation, 2. time
travel, or the long shot, aliens. Several episodes later, guess what?-
2,000 years of suspended animation.Soon I realized that much of this was simply ripped off from 1967's
movie, "In the Year 2889". Mad scientist figures out the end of the
world's coming, saving select people in a small valley with cliffs on 3
sides that the cannibalistic mutant humans with huge pointy teeth,
can't get down. Model of the entire valley, talk of procreation, etc,
etc.Nowhere in this series do ANY of the characters in the town of Wayward
Pines, act rationally, sane, or use logic in the slightest manner. I
could list more than 100 irrational, idiotic things the characters did,
given the situation, but there isn't nearly enough room.Ummm... where is the food coming from? ...the cars? ...the houses?
...the electricity?Some people defend this, saying it's all from immense storage areas
inside the mountain. (It would have to be! There are no crops, no
factories, no livestock.)Ummm... how would you like a nice, heaping dish, of 2,000 year old ice
cream? (Big favorite of the sheriff.) What about a nice dish of 2,000
year old cereal, with 2,000 year old milk? Running cars on 2,000 year
old gasoline (gasoline's octane drops so low after 7 years, it won't
run cars). Where do you buy those tires today, with that 2,000 year
warranty? I'd like a set!Ludicrous, ridiculous! Did the incompetent writers think ANY plot point
in this entire story, through in the slightest?Imagine this, if you would. Mad scientist billionaire sets this all up.
Freezes everyone he's kidnapped over more than a decade. Freezes food.
Now, ALL of this equipment has to run perfectly, without repair for
2,000 years, and automatically wake them up! How many items
manufactured TODAY, will still be working even 20 years from now, let
alone 2,000 years! WHERE is the power coming from, to run all of this
power hungry equipment? Idiotic!Most of these problems could've been avoided by using an old science
fiction idea, a "stasis field", where time stops inside (seen in the TV
show, "Red Dwarf"), where everything could have been stored.The mad "scientist" billionaire, a biologist, who has set this all up,
thinks nothing of having regular executions (murders, really), for the
tiniest of offenses, in a town where no one knows it's 2,000 years in
the future, with terrible monsters outside the electric fence! Though
they don't know it, they are living on stores that won't last forever.Ummm... wouldn't it make slightly more sense, to be figuring out a way
to clear the monsters out of an area so that you could farm, and start
building factories, BEFORE your storehouse runs out, and everyone
starves to death? Instead of wasting a bunch of people monitoring
everyone's tiniest move in town, and going through all of your limited
stores? And setting everyone at each others throats bloodily demanding
executions for the smallest, most insignificant infractions?The rational for this, is that in the first incarnation of the town,
when the residents were informed of the real situation, they began
committing mass suicide. Hogwash! In wartime, when cities were bombed
into rubble (a similar kind of psychological shock), no such thing
happened.And being a biologist, he should CERTAINLY know, that the gene pool
here is already almost too small to continue the human race. Each
execution, POOF!, those genes are gone forever from the gene pool.
Obviously, he should have frozen sperm, to guarantee genetic diversity
over the coming generations, but somehow this simple thought eluded him
(though I doubt that 2,000 year old frozen sperm would be any more
viable than 2,000 year old frozen humans).And THEN, he decides to kill off the entire town, because they've
displeased him, and defrost a third group, to try again. Madness!
Irrational! Bad, stupid, stupid, stupid writing.I've saved the worst bit for last, the creatures, the "abbies". The
creatures are supposedly mutated humans. The writers obviously don't
have the slightest clue what a mutation is, or how they happen
(randomly and incrementally), or what is required for the mutation to
become widespread (advantages over their predecessors in a given
environment).Believe me, if "abbies" suddenly started being born everywhere
(something that can't happen), they would overwhelmingly be killed at
birth. They would not take over the planet, and kill all the normal
humans. Again, bad, stupid writing.Also, they can't survive as depicted. Apparently 100% males (ummm, how
do they procreate?) Naked, without clothing, in IDAHO??? I don't think
so! Hundreds of them, constantly, in tiny areas? WHAT do they eat? They
would die out rapidly from starvation after clearing out an area of
game.There is a partial fix for this stupidity. That the creatures were a
result of genetically modifying humans to create super-soldiers, and
used in a war. Simultaneously, a biological weapon wipes out regular
humans, leaving the creatures unscathed. (NOT original ideas.) But the
ignorant writers didn't write this, or anything resembling competent
writing, of course.Garbage, drivel, terrible, waste of time.You've been warned!Karl********MAJOR SPOILERS!********

Review after first 5 episodes

3 /10

Beware that a lot of people has been rating this series based on the
pilot alone. I probably should review this series once the first season
is done ...

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Beware that a lot of people has been rating this series based on the
pilot alone. I probably should review this series once the first season
is done but I can't hold it any longer now that a lot of the story has
been revealed. The characters in this series and their behavior don't make any sense
whatsoever. Once you've reached episode 5 you'll see that the previous
episodes don't make much sense at all and it looks like every episode
just tried to make you watch the next one cause 'óooh its so
mysterious'. There is no logic at all to the story. I like science
fiction so I'm not criticizing the main reason behind Wayward pines.
I'm just saying that there is no logic whatsoever within the main
story. The characters don't behave at all the way normal people would.
The kid and wife are the most clueless and easy going person I've ever
seen. It's like they don't even care being in Wayward Pines. Anyway...
Go watch Black Mirror instead

Cheap

6 /10

I started hating this show after 5 min of watching of the first
episode. Mr. Shaman-la-man nyaman used to be a good director, but the
first episode, ...

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I started hating this show after 5 min of watching of the first
episode. Mr. Shaman-la-man nyaman used to be a good director, but the
first episode, which he directed was just awefull. I hate the constant
closeups, they make wanna stop watching immediately, but the story
itself kept me alive and wake, even though the story is old and told
already many times.I'm gonna give it 1-2 more chances to see how other directors will do,
but what can I expect from a show with no originality whatsoever.Castwise, Dillon is good for the role, looks like crap, and confused
all the time even though he's a secret agent. Guggino is always good to
see. To see.Any rating above 6 is just not realistic. It looks and feels cheap. I
would rather watch iZombie istead of this...and they both suck.

First Episode Critique

7 /10

The pilot of Wayward Pines went according to script (the trilogy), but
the cut scenes between cities were awkward. Only for a person who read
the tri ...

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The pilot of Wayward Pines went according to script (the trilogy), but
the cut scenes between cities were awkward. Only for a person who read
the trilogy would have been able to follow. It's a series, for cryin'
out loud. There was no reason to rush the plot along.Secondly, one of the fatal flaws of the trilogy is being replayed (so
far) in this series: the characters are two-dimensional. I couldn't get
excited about any of the characters in the trilogy, and it looks like I
won't be able to get excited about them in this series. Interesting,
though: Pam is a lot older than I imagined, and I see that Adam is a
nice guy from the beginning.

David Lynch Writing & Directing Dead Would Be More Interesting

2 /10

The premise makes no sense in the 21st century with email and cell
phones, our current day technology makes 'Wayward Pines" all the more
preposterous ...

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The premise makes no sense in the 21st century with email and cell
phones, our current day technology makes 'Wayward Pines" all the more
preposterous. Matt Dillon who was considered an "interesting" actor,
and one to "look out for!" back in the 80's (he wasn't interesting at
all; just had dumb luck or a great mgr) is an agent with the secret
service investigating 2 missing agents. He's in a car accident with
another secret service investigator. The other agent dies (or so we've
been told) Dillon's character is taken to a weird hospital, with a
weird (and annoying) nurse, in clean living small town Idaho, "Wayward
Pines".After the accident, he's leaving messages for his wife on their home
phone (aka LANDLINE)answering machine! Unless I missed it, he has yet
to try to contact his wife via her CELL PHONE?! He calls his office but
the new receptionist refuses to give him his supervisor's cell number.
Okay that is plausible but what is NOT plausible is that he would not
call a different office within the secret service to be put through to
someone who can help him. Or why wouldn't he call another family
member, or a friend? I cannot watch this show because the whole telephone thing is just
stupid. Even if you cannot remember the phone number you need (and now
we don't need to memorize phone numbers) someone somewhere in Wayward
Pines has internet access!I seriously do not know how this kind of crappy script not only got
picked up by a major network, but it actually got produced AND AIRED?!The only thing this stupid show gives me is hope.I now have great hope
as a TV scriptwriter. If "Wayward Pines" can get the green light then
so can any story I author.

Junk

10 /10

OK, here's my summary: This thing is a piece of crap. I can see the
paid shills have already piped up, trying to drive the comments. But
the truth is ...

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OK, here's my summary: This thing is a piece of crap. I can see the
paid shills have already piped up, trying to drive the comments. But
the truth is this is just more of the same, confuse the viewer, leave
tantalizing stupid 'clues' scattered around for the goggle-eyed viewer
to gasp at and ponder later, nonsensical bits of dialog.. basically a
storytelling technique to sucker-punch the audience into watching a
piece of drawn out drivel show after show. They'll keep this stupid thing going as long as they can, no doubt
figuring out how to buffalo the viewers into thinking there's actually
a story behind all this. Wasting your time on this kind of junk is worse than watching paint
dry. Go back to some old Leave It To Beaver episodes and at least have
a laugh or two.

Its a complete and utter load of dross, truly woeful

10 /10

As others have mentioned the shills are out in force, the only way this
show could possibly get any favourable comments.A half-arsed rip-off of "The ...

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As others have mentioned the shills are out in force, the only way this
show could possibly get any favourable comments.A half-arsed rip-off of "The Prisoner" with a lot of dribble thrown in,
I can not for the life of me see anything good about this show.
Hopefully it is only a 10 episode wonder because as it is they "could"
have "possibly" made a half decent 2 hour movie out of it but to make a
series is to torture the viewers for no good reason.The plot if you can call it that is woeful, not one logical thing has
been done by the lead character in the first 3 episodes.Save yourself the effort and don't waste your time, I certainly won't
be watching another episode.

Great talent but...terrible show!

10 /10

A great cast that includes Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Terence Howard
and many more but the story and script are simply boring. I've watched
the fir ...

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A great cast that includes Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Terence Howard
and many more but the story and script are simply boring. I've watched
the first 2 episodes and that will be enough for me.Many great movie actors are turning to Television these days including
Tea Leoni and Katherine Heigl to name few but they're all working on
these terrible shows...what's up with that!I predict a very short life for this series as well. Hopefully we will
be seeing these great actors on much better shows soon enough. As for
the people responsible for hiring good actors to work with these bad
scripts, why don't you do us all a big favor and start by hiring good
writers.

Everything is a mystery

9 /10

I would give this show 10/10 but its like I know it will get even
better in new episodes. I just watched the first 2 episodes and I cannot wait to wa ...

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I would give this show 10/10 but its like I know it will get even
better in new episodes. I just watched the first 2 episodes and I cannot wait to watch another
one when it comes out. The show is so tense and it keeps you in
anticipation for every minute you watch it. Everything is so well done,
environment looks so nice and beautiful but also so dark and I would
even say scary because everything is so weird you just cant know who is
normal and who is not. I will not talk about the plot because you just
need to see the first episode or two to get interested. They picked the right actors for the job and they could make this show
the big thing in 2015. Watch the show and do not talk about the past!

Like a lame version of Lost only lamer

2 /10

This feels a lot like an M. Night Shamalama project. I suspect his hand
is fairly heavy in the decision making process on this one. Matt Dillon
is a ...

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This feels a lot like an M. Night Shamalama project. I suspect his hand
is fairly heavy in the decision making process on this one. Matt Dillon
is a fine and interesting actor, and drew me to watch the pilot He has
plenty of company here with other fine actors, all of whom cannot save
this train wreck of a show. The problem with Wayward Piles, as with
most of Shamalamadingdongs work, is that it expects you to drop all
pretenses of reason and believability and go for a ride with the silly,
poorly conceived fantasies of the author. Nothing makes sense, but if
you just turn off your brain and stop asking questions, then it might
hold your attention. Unfortunately, even for those who are willing to,
or long ago have, turned off their brains, this show feels set up for
nothing more than an old fashioned Charlie Brown and Lucy missed
football kick. I have no idea what the ending holds, as I only made it
through three episodes before I couldn't take it anymore, but there
seems to be only two ways for this to end. Either the city is real, in
which case nothing makes any sense whatsoever, or it is imagined by a
crazy Matt Dillon character, in which case it makes no sense
whatsoever. Either way, the show is primarily nothing more than
trickery to keep viewers confused so they might come back again to
resolve things, which of course, will never happen in a satisfactory
way. It seems the makers of Waylow Pines has borrowed ideas of several
good shows, (i.e. Lost, Twin Peaks, The X-files et. al.) and ignored
any of the important things those shows did to stay on the air for so
long, while copying their grave mistakes.

A fascinating story that is well acted.

9 /10

When WP first aired I thought it was going to be a Twin Peaks copy. I
am so happy that I continued watching. I liked the series so much after
episode ...

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When WP first aired I thought it was going to be a Twin Peaks copy. I
am so happy that I continued watching. I liked the series so much after
episode 5 I read all three books before episode six. I think they made
great choices when converting the story to screen with just a few
exceptions. The show has a great cast playing a fascinating story!! I
highly recommend this sci-fi thriller and also recommend reading the
books, they really enhance the show. Matt Dillion is a suburb Ethan Burke that should be Emmy material. He
acts all the twists and turns with brilliance and believability. The WP
set is extraordinary as is the cinema photography, all said you will
appreciate the production values. This is a one of a kind series.

M. Night returns to what he does best.

10 /10

Wayward Pines started out a bit slow and generic however, it quickly
became intriguing and interesting as the story unfolds through the
character dri ...

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Wayward Pines started out a bit slow and generic however, it quickly
became intriguing and interesting as the story unfolds through the
character driven plot.The cast did a fantastic job. M Night should've made this book into a
movie but I'm looking forward to the rest of the episodes and see where
it goes. My problem with the show is its "digital video look" it makes
everything appear fake like a primetime soap opera and it takes me out
of the story. I had the same problem with Sleepy Hollow, Bones, etc.
Since it's a 10part mini series they should've shot it on film. Anyway,
this show has a feel of David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcok, and the Truman
Show.These are the kinds of stories that made M. Night Shyamalan's career
(6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village) until he dozed off into BS
territory (The Happening, The Last Airbender, After Earth).

Not a Good Show

2 /10

Johnny Carson used to have a saying about his jokes - or any jokes: "If
you buy the premise, you buy the bit." Well, the same could be said of
Waywar ...

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Johnny Carson used to have a saying about his jokes - or any jokes: "If
you buy the premise, you buy the bit." Well, the same could be said of
Wayward Pines. Unfortunately, it took me four-and-a-half episodes
before I realized I couldn't buy the premise. Or, more importantly, I
didn't care! Typical of so much of television writing these days, there
is a lot of tease in Wayward Pines, interspersed with very long, boring
stretches, and then very little or no payoff. I see from other reviews
and comments that the cat-is-out-of-the-bag. But I won't reveal what
happens. Only to say that you will have a thousand questions at the
end. How could this have happened? What about X doing that? I don't
understand how... Really not that well acted a show. Poorly written.
Not entertaining in my view. I had my doubts going in (the book wasn't
all that good, either). I'm sorry I wasted four hours on it.

Suspend logic if you want to enjoy this show

4 /10

OK, I was intrigued by the first two episodes. A secret service agent
finds himself in a strange town after an accident, with apparently no
way out. ...

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OK, I was intrigued by the first two episodes. A secret service agent
finds himself in a strange town after an accident, with apparently no
way out. The whole town seems in on some secret which the secret
service agent tries to unravel. A good premise. Then there was the episode called 'the truth', which explains what the
town is all about. And I could have not been more let down by the
reveal. This is a couple thousand years in the future and Wayward Pines is the
last holdout for humans who have been cryogenically frozen from two
thousand years ago. A holdout against dangerous, carnivorous mutants.
Fine, that by itself is believable. But then one has to wonder why the
humans who have been woken up in Wayward Pines are not told the truth?
Why are they being monitored and living in fear? And why, oh why, are
they being publicly slaughtered when the entire human race is dying???
Children are told the truth but not their parents, apparently because
the parents cannot deal with the truth. Give me a break. So, to put it in a nutshell, there is absolutely no logical reason for
why the people in Wayward Pines act as crazy as they do, and there's no
plausible explanation for all the shocking sequences from the first few
episodes. Suspend your logic if you want to enjoy this show riddled
with plot holes large enough to stick M. Night Shymalan's head into.

A Great Start for A Promising Mystery

8 /10

Ethan Burke climbs a steep hillside through a forest at night, finally
arriving at the summit. He turns back to view where he came from and
sees a sm ...

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Ethan Burke climbs a steep hillside through a forest at night, finally
arriving at the summit. He turns back to view where he came from and
sees a small town in a valley, shrouded in mist like an evil Brigadoon.
He is trying to escape the town of Wayward Pines, but for some
mysterious reason, he is unable.A Secret Service agent, he was sent to Wayward Pines to locate two
missing agents. In the pilot for this new series by Fox, he encounters
more questions than answers. He has a difficult time determining
exactly what happened to him. Supposedly, he was in a bad car accident.
He is pretty banged up and maybe his injuries have affected his memory
and his perceptions. By the end of the first episode, the viewer will
have some answers, but they just set the table for an intriguing
mystery that, like Brigadoon, apparently involves the dimension of
time.The first episode feels like an episode of "The Prisoner", the sixties
classic in which a secret agent tries to escape from a strange village
with peculiar rules and a unfathomable purpose. "Wayward Pines" seems
to promise a similar journey for its viewers. It's a great start.

Surprising in so many ways

9 /10

I've never seen anything quite like Wayward Pines, because it changed
every week. Plot twists in the series didn't just change your
perceptions about ...

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I've never seen anything quite like Wayward Pines, because it changed
every week. Plot twists in the series didn't just change your
perceptions about the show; they changed its nature.The first week the show seemed a lot like Twin Peaks with elements of
Lost (from which the first shot was cribbed), although to me it was
closest in tone to the cut scenes from the video game series Silent
Hill. Everyone was off. Everything was weird. Characters are there, and
then they're not there and never were. It's all wonderfully creepy and
odd.By the second episode it felt more like the series was going in the
direction of The Prisoner. But the series took so many left turns that
it drove through conspiracy, sci-fi, action, and more, along the way
continually killing off characters you were convinced were there for
the duration.Normally I am pretty good at guessing where things are going, but this
mini-series kept me off balance for its entire run. I can't say I loved
the ending, which was emotionally a bit unsatisfying, but I thought it
was a clever way to end it all the same.Overall, it was really remarkable.

There's a rooted sense of dread when one is faced with unknown
elements, the series plays with this isolation fright as Ethan Burke
(Matt Dillon) is ...

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There's a rooted sense of dread when one is faced with unknown
elements, the series plays with this isolation fright as Ethan Burke
(Matt Dillon) is stripped bare from money and communication to outside
world. Ethan wakes up after a car accident and finds himself in a
foreign small town where the citizens are persistently unaccommodating.
While the scenery might look normal, the town has the vibe of lurking
secret in every corner. This is definitely no tourist attraction.Matt Dillon is a good leading actor, displaying confusion and
occasional rage as he is lost in the bizarre city. Having no money,
phone or decent help, his reactions are spot-on. At times he displays
doubt of the reality as more questions pile up. Terrence Howard as
Sheriff Pope looks decently antagonistic. Nothing more creepy when one
is lost than unhelpful authority. Another notable performance is
Mellisa Leo as Nurse Pam who is far from nurturing, goes beyond
unhelpful and straight into perverse torturing nature.Wayward Pines looks quaint most of the time, yet the cinematography
presents a lingering uneasiness. Its rural view mixed with edges of
forest has some resemblances to Silent Hill. It has a particular dark
contrast befitting of detective thriller which strangely enough feels
welcoming to the audience. Pacing is pretty quick as it switches back
and forth between Ethan's ordeal and his friends' investigation of his
whereabouts.Mysteries are aplenty as it the show spreads them throughout the first
episode. The show cleverly scatters hints for Ethan and the audiences
to follow. They are presented with restraint and enough ambiguity to be
unnerving yet not to the point of overbearing. These are enticing hooks
for later episodes.Wayward Pines opens its door with cold unsettling ambiance and cool
noir visual. The mystery thriller certainly offers a presentable
invitation for a longer stay.

There Are No Critics In Wayward Pines

-/10

Or at least shouldn't be any negative critiques of this wonderful new
TV show. WayWard Pines is incredible, the cinematography and locations
give the ...

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Or at least shouldn't be any negative critiques of this wonderful new
TV show. WayWard Pines is incredible, the cinematography and locations
give the series a unique, almost dream-like chilling quality. The plot,
where does one begin? Such a mysterious vibe which could literally take
the viewer anywhere. 'Pines' has that classic British television
series,'The Prisoner' feel with a secondary element reminiscent of
Lynch's Twin Peaks. Does the Wayward Pines formula copy The Prisoner or
Twin Peaks? No; however, while 'Pines does borrow a tiny amount from
each the recipe was dreamt up in development heaven. Wayward Pines is
without a doubt its own series and cements that originality with a
competence in direction and production rarely seen on American
television these days. Pushed to define the show I would suggest a mix
consisting of a Dark City/The Prisoner (British version) atmosphere
with a touch of Twin Peaks, a pinch of Lost, Dark Skies (much loved and
missed) and Surveillance. I have a strong feeling 'Pines' will be THE show of 2015

From The Village to the village idiot ?

2 /10

So we finally know the full truth, or...The problem is, I don't really care anymore, as the magnitude of
"suspension of disbelief" required at this p ...

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So we finally know the full truth, or...The problem is, I don't really care anymore, as the magnitude of
"suspension of disbelief" required at this point is beyond my tolerance
threshold, by a wide margin. I don't mind that bits and pieces are
borrowed from "The Prisoner," "The Twilight Zone," "Cube," "The
Village," "Dark City," "Twin Peaks," "Persons Unknown," and a bunch of
other movies and TV shows, but to come up with something like this is
quite irritating. However, before I get to the plot, I want to mention
that the often cardboard acting is a problem here, because the plot
can't keep your mind off of it. I'm particularly disappointed in Matt
Dillon's performance - it often feels like they gave the lead role to
someone who can't do more than be a background character actor! Better
acting for his role might have helped quite a bit, at least until the
level of silliness became clear.As to the plot, it's just ludicrous, but it would have at least made
more sense to say that people decided to experiment with genetic
manipulation to create "super humans," but a small group was kept to be
the old type humans, just in case something went terribly wrong, which
in fact would have to happen for it to play out in a similar way. The
worst thing here, beyond super humans who can violate the laws of
physics, is the idea that teenagers are the psychologically strong ones
and can keep secrets! Wouldn't you tell the adults first, because they
would want to ensure that their children are protected and can live a
reasonably good life? Don't parents tell their children about the "hard
realities of life" most of the time? How did that get reversed? And if
the adults "freak out," well, we saw that there was no hesitation about
executing anyone!So, we have this fake town where the kids know an incredible truth but
don't tell their parents, but if an adult wants to know about the truth
he or she is publicly executed in a gruesome way with the kids watching
and cheering. Yes, what a wonderful way to preserve good old American
values! And if you are a species on the verge of extinction, why are
you executing members who just want to know the truth or speak their
minds? Unless this all turns out to be someone's nightmare, I can't see
how this is going to hold any water. It's ridiculous on multiple levels
- scientific, social, psychological, and technological. I like the idea
of these kinds of presentations, so I suggest that those who have the
same preferences watch the ones I mentioned above - who would have
guessed, after watching a few episodes, that "Sleeper" would come
across as more serious than this !

Where Paradise Is Home

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Thanks to luck I was able to get a sneak preview of the first episode
'Where Paradise Is Home', and I, for my part, did enjoy it a lot, as
far as pil ...

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Thanks to luck I was able to get a sneak preview of the first episode
'Where Paradise Is Home', and I, for my part, did enjoy it a lot, as
far as pilots go.I found the first episode to be a fun starting point. the mystery
unfolds before you, but hell if I know what is going on with the
idyllic village of Wayward Pines.There's some seriously good acting, some really wacky scenes and
dialogue and the humor did not fall short, surprisingly.The story opens with our protagonist Burke waking up in the middle of
nowhere, injured and confused, only to stumble upon eerie Wayward
Pines. On a mission to find two missing Special Agents, one his former
partner Kate, he is sucked deeper into the village's strange events.
Finding no help in either hospital or with the Sheriff (Howard is funny
and engaging, and together with Nurse Pam he easily steals the first
episode), we will drift across town with him and learn more about Burke
himself and the village.The series is using the, nowadays, standard of location swapping
together with flashbacks (and possible flash forwards), keeping you on
your toes to follow the story. it's well done, but I cannot judge how
good the twists will end up being. there's tons of them. the pilot is
throwing a few, from what it seems major, twists at you, but keeping in
mind that this is the first episode, I'd say most of them are smokes
and mirrors for now.There is also a lot of green screens and most of the town seems so
overly fake that I am drawn to assume it is indeed on purpose. it never
really does break the story and adds to the atmosphere of strangeness
that hangs over the village.If you have a warm spot for police mysteries a'la X-Files, creepy,
isolated towns (thinking the Dome and Twin Peaks here, mixed with a
less foggy and monster-less Silent Hill) with a weird sense of humor
(looking at you over there, Eureka. you know we love you, right?) give
it a go.I for myself will be on the lookout for the next episode. even if it is
only for Sheriff Pope